In Kherson, the Security Service has detained another collaborator who cooperated with the russian occupation administration after the temporary capture of the city.

The person in question is a local handyman who in the summer of 2022 joined the so-called ‘penitentiary administration’ that the enemy had set up in the building of the captured pre-trial detention centre.

There, he was appointed ‘junior inspector’ and issued with a weapon, ID card and russian uniform.

According to the investigation, the perpetrator guarded the cells of the occupation prison, to which ruscists brought members of the resistance movement.

In the jail, the victims were tortured in an attempt to beat the addresses of other Ukrainian patriots out of them.

After Kherson’s liberation, the collaborator tried to hide from justice. He lay low at his home, hardly ever leaving it.

The SSU established his location and detained him.

SSU investigators have notified the detainee of suspicion under Article 111-1.7 of the CCU (collaboration).

The suspect is in custody and faces up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operational and investigative actions were carried out by the SSU Offices in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and in Mykolaiv region under the procedural supervision of Mykolaiv Specialized Defence Prosecutor’s Office for the Southern region.